assaut

Inherited from Old French assaut, asalt, from Vulgar Latin *assaltus, modification of Latin assultus.

• IPA^(key): /a.so/

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• Rhymes: -so, -o

assaut m (plural assauts)

1. assault

• arme d’assaut
• char d’assaut
• fusil d’assaut
• donner l’assaut
• prendre d’assaut

• “assaut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• sautas

• asalt
• asault

From Vulgar Latin *assaltus, modification of Latin assultus.

assaut oblique singular, m (oblique plural assauz or assautz, nominative singular assauz or assautz, nominative plural assaut)

1. assault; attack
   • fist faire assaut a la dite cyté

     They made an assault on the aforementioned city

• French: assaut
• → Middle Dutch: assaut
  • Dutch: assaut
• → Middle English: assaut
  • English: assault